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Scalability Testing Best Practices

Will your software perform well during peak hours? Can it handle the load during sales periods? Is your infrastructure valid if you double your sales by the end of the year? These are just some of the questions that scalability testing can help you answer. Scalability testing evaluates the activity level of your application by upscaling and downscaling the number of users.

Data Visualizations with InfluxDB: Integrating plotly.js

One of the great features of the InfluxData cloud platform is that it comes out of the box with all the tools you need to quickly read and write your data to the database. Here, we’ll walk through creating data visualizations with InfluxDB and plotly.js, a JavaScript graphing library built on top of d3.js and stack.gl.

The PwnKit vulnerability: Overview, detection, and remediation

On January 25, 2022, Qualys announced the discovery of a local privilege escalation vulnerability that it identified as PwnKit. The PwnKit vulnerability affects PolicyKit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program installed by default on many Linux distributions. The same day of the announcement, a proof of concept (PoC) exploit was built and published by the security research community.

Machine learning is going real-time: Here's why and how

After talking to machine learning and infrastructure engineers at major Internet companies across the US, Europe, and China, two groups of companies emerged. One group has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure to allow real-time machine learning and has already seen returns on their investments. The other group still wonders if there’s value in real-time machine learning.

What Are the Benefits of a Customized Maintenance Management System?

As we all know, every organization has a different requirement, and each software would require some in every organization. It does not matter if two organizations belong to the same industry and have the same working process even then their requirements would differ from one to another. Therefore, for every software Customization is important. In this blog, we will know what the benefits of customization in maintenance management systems are. So, without wasting any time let us begin!

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Excel Business KPIs Dashboard

The Management Team at SquaredUp needed a dashboard to visualise key metrics related to the different sectors of business to keep an eye on the KPIs and track targets. This dashboard keeps track of the different key targets set for the business over three time periods and highlights variations. The dashboard also plots the trend on different values hit over the time and helps identify fluctuations.

IP ranges - better security for more confidence

Today, we’re announcing that one of our most popular feature requests, IP ranges, is now generally available for CircleCI Cloud customers. This feature enables teams to meet compliance requirements by limiting the connections that communicate with their infrastructure. No company wants to give the entire internet access to their artifact repositories or other sensitive environments. With IP ranges, teams are able to open up their IP-based firewalls to only CircleCI.